This piece was so fun to work on! I’ve really missed doing traditional work, but it’s hard to find the space to do anything bigger than an artist trading card right now.
Dustin and Vivian like to dance a lot. They’re terrible at it, but that doesn’t matter. I don’t really have a huge story behind this beyond that. I just wanted to draw them being cute and ended up putting them in some abandoned museum because why not?
Here’s some detail shots:
If you like this art, please consider reblogging it so that more people can see it!
The sheer number of people mistaking me for @systlin in my inbox at the moment is astounding so let me make it easier for some of you.
@systlin : plant witch who raises bees and has a whole host of other terrifyingly awesome skills
me: the witch who is allergic to all nature and cannot go outside because even though I don’t believe in gods, the bastards still have a sick sense of humor.
Which one(s) of you all have the terrifying rose? @systlin, right?
Both of us actually, but mines is called Demon Rose cause unlike Systlin who manages to somewhat contain hers, mine has taken over that side of the house.
Everything about this thread is golden
It knows full well I have a machete and armor and will use them if it crosses me
Excerpt from the non-existent book, How to Identify Your Internet Cryptid.
Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).
Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.
… huh. I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.
I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.
Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.
“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”
Something is
Something is wrong with our language
Is it a glitch or a feature?
Feature
we don’t have anything like this in French and it offers a range of expressibility that I wish we could properly translate back. it is a feature, i concur
For decades, programmers have talked about the tendency of software to
become less reliable over time as “rot,” but Konrad Hinsen makes a
compelling case that the right metaphor is “collapse,” because the
reason software degrades is that the ground underneath it (hardware,
operating systems, libraries, programming languages) has shifted, like
the earth moving under your house.
Building on this metaphor, Hinsen identifies strategies we use to keep
our houses standing: building only on stable ground; building in
reinforcements to counteract the expected degree of shaking; fixing the
house after every quake, or giving up and rebuilding the house every
time it falls down.
These strategies are of limited use to software developers, though:
building in a risk-free environment means using systems that don’t
change, which severely limits your options (some large fraction of ATM
transactions today loop through a system running COBOL!); we don’t
really know how to make software that remains reliable when its
underlying substrates change; and rebuilding software from scratch over
and over again only works for very trivial code.
Which really leaves us with only option 3: constant repairs.
I love this analysis but I wonder where “technology debt” fits in (the
idea that you shave a corner or ignore a problem, then have to devote
ever-larger amounts of resources to shoring up this weak spot, until,
eventually, the amount of work needed to keep the thing running exceeds
all available resources and it collapses).
I’ve compiled all current space emperor updates into one large Google Doc, which you can read here. I’ll continue updating this link and possibly go back and make minor edits as I see fit. I’m not sure how to format it so you can easily skip from chapter to chapter from the outline, but I’ll work on that! The most recent update is chapter nine.
OK now I figured out how to make chapters. If you go to “View”, find the dropdown menu, and select “Show document outline” it all shows up as clickable chapter sections.
just so younger people are aware: a few years ago it was sorta impossible to google how words were pronounced. and it sucked. it was super terrible. the next time an aging asshat tries to shame you for being young, just know I have been pronouncing my vowels wrong my entire life and am still extremely bitter over this. I would strangle countless condescending boomers for the chance to drag even this tiny bit of technological progress back to my primary school days.
the good old days were never good. next time an adult tells you that, look em dead in the eye n tell them they’re either an idiot or a sellout
What words have you been mispronouncing
deign
caveat
perogies
macabre
necronomicon
epitaph
motif
analogous
comparable
colonel
egregious
hyperbole
ignominious
superfluous
malleable
insatiable
chaos (i pronounced it ‘cha-chose’ in my head I have no idea why)
